Outboard Motor Oil
         and  Power Mower Motor Oil

     Canadian Oil Companies list of products would consist of several long pages. A particular favourite of mine were the outboard motor oil containers.This oil was used in all 2-cycle engines and often the rear of the tin showed a power lawn mower .
To the best of my knowledge these were not marketed in the "Boy and Slate" days preceeding 1939 .The image above shows all the outboard oil tins that I am aware of .All seemed to be marketed only in the quart size but I am sure larger bulk sizes were available to commercial customers .
The earliest is the yellow and black ,produced sometime after 1939 and continuing in this package until 1952 .Next came the red and yellow packaging used from 1952 to 1958. Two versions of this can differed only on the back side.The middle two quarts would have been marketed from 1958 to 1962. All of the above oil were labeled as products of Canadian Oil Companies Ltd. Following the purchase of this company by Shell Oil Company of Canada in late 1962 the side panel of the last two containers shown
now read "Canadian Oil Company - -A division of Shell Canada ".
 I cannot be sure but I suspect that plastic packaging was in it's infancy in the late 50's  were not fully accepted at this time , leading to the use of both plastic and metal containers . I believe that 1967 was the last year the  "White Rose " logo was used .
 

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